Steve Martin Quotes
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
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If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
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John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.
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A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
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If young people don’t like reading, let’s not blame television or the modern world or school. Or rather, blame them all, but only after asking what we have done to that ideal reader since the days when we played at being both storyteller and book.
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Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.
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If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
